226 MODERN FOREST ECONOMY. 



to which allusion has been made, the importance of which 

 is fully realised. 



The Exhibition having been designed by its promoters 

 as a means of ' promoting a movement for the establish- 

 ment of a National School of Forestry in Scotland/ this 

 has not been lost sight of in the compilation of the 

 information embodied in the volume. And it is hoped 

 that, while the possession of this information may enable 

 readers of these pages to look more intelligently upon 

 many of the objects which may be exhibited, it may 

 prompt them to aid in the accomplishment of the ulterior 

 object of the promoters of the Exhibition. 



At a meeting of the Society of Arts, held on the 1st 

 March 1882, a paper On the Teaching of Forestry was 

 read by Colonel G. F. Pearson, resident at Nancy to 

 superintend the education there of candidates for employ- 

 ment in the Forest Service of India ; in the conclusion of 

 which paper, after having described some of the Crown 

 forests and private woods of Britain, he said : 



' It is impossible to speak too highly of the admirable work 

 done by the able men who have created these forests at 

 Scone, Blair Athole, Dunk eld, in Strathspey, on the Find- 

 horn, and at Beauly, in Scotland, as well as in some of the 

 English Crown forests. In our Colonies, including India, 

 there are millions and millions of acres of forest land, 

 some of which is of the greatest value, so that Great 

 Britain is perhaps the country most richly endowed in 

 forest wealth, of all the countries of the earth. Ever/ 

 one, not oaly in our own country, but elsewhere, is 

 interested that all this great forest wealth should not b 3 

 wasted or frittered away by a single generation of men. 

 But, nevertheless, what is the future of all the forests ? 

 I have visited many of them, and scarcely anywhere did I see 

 any of that young growth which are the links uniting 

 the forest now on the ground with that of the future. Can 

 any one say, then, that the future of these forests is 

 assured ? As at present they exist, one of two conditions 

 must befall them. Either they will be cut down and the 



